WHITEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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語源 1

• As an English surname, from 中期英語 White, as a nickname for someone with white hair or pale complexion; in some cases from a personal name of the same meaning. See the modern adjective white.
• Also as an English surname, from 古期英語 *wiht (“bend”), found only in placenames, a derivative of the verb wican (“to yield, bend”); compare Wight.
• As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, used as a translation of several Gaelic names containing the element bán and geal, including Mac Giolla bháin (McElwain, Kilbane), Ó Gealagáin (Galligan), Bán (Bane), and Ó Banáin (Bannon).
• Also as a Scottish and Irish surname, an Anglicization of Irish de Faoite, itself from Anglo-Norman le White, le Whyte, from the same source as the English surname.

固有名詞

White (countable and uncountable, plural Whites)

1. A common British and Irish surname transferred from the nickname.
   • 2024 November 16, Aaron Timms, “How UFC head Dana White became the glue between Maga and the manosphere”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 6 February 2025:

     When Dana White barreled up to the microphone, at Donald Trump’s request, to say his piece on election night, it represented confirmation of the UFC CEO’s status as one of the key members of the president-elect’s inner circle.

2. A locale in the United States:
   1. A minor city in Bartow County, Georgia; named for its first postmaster.
   2. A city in South Dakota; named for its first European settler.
   3. An unincorporated community in Washington; named for a Washington state judge.
   4. A ghost town in Missouri; named for a local mining official.

別の表記

• (surname): Whyte, Wight

派生語

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, White is the 24 most common surname in the United States, belonging to 660,491 individuals. White is most common among White (65.5%) and Black/African American (28.2%) individuals.

語源 2

Capitalized due to this racial sense's connotation of (current or historical) European origin, so as to follow the capitalization rules for nationalities and ethne, known in former centuries as “races” (e.g., “the Chinese race”, “the English race”), and also, perhaps, as a way to explicitly distinguish it from the color sense, which is never capitalized outside proper nouns.

形容詞

White (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US, sometimes Canada and UK) Alternative letter-case form of white (“of or relating to white complexion or Europeans”).
   • 2025 April 8, Sarah Stock, “Five Common Myths About White People — Debunked”, in Rift TV‎, archived from the original on 12 January 2026:

     Unfortunately, many White people have been raised to believe that their race is intrinsically more prejudice than others.

名詞

White (plural Whites)

1. Alternative letter-case form of white (“European”).
   • 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 155:

     The Whites on the mission were a special kind of white person, special in the way that my grandmother had explained to me, for they were holy.

   • 2025 April 8, Sarah Stock, “Five Common Myths About White People — Debunked”, in Rift TV‎, archived from the original on 12 January 2026:

     To add insult to injury, not only do Whites shame each other but every other race joins in because they are also educated to believe Whites have somehow screwed them over and are still screwing them over.

2. (historical, politics) An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.

   Hypernym: anticommunist

3. (chess) The player moving the white pieces.

   Coordinate term: Black

   • 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE‎, archived from the original on 16 March 2025, page 21:

     The eight files (from left to right for White and from right to left for Black) are indicated by the small letters, a, b, c, d, e, f, g and h, respectively.

アナグラム

• withe

固有名詞

White

1. a surname

派生した語

• English: White
• Yola: Whit, Whitthe

参照

• “le_White”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.